Charles koszegi



c KOSZEGI CULTIVATOR FOR TREATING THE solL.

4 APPLICATION FILED NOV. 23, 1920. I 1,414,364, Patented May 2, 1922.

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I 15W Tl T1 T1 A lal l I n These drawbacks can only be oyereorne by "Be it "known' ithatflg {G1 ARLEs Koszi ier; subject of the li ingdorn off Hungaryfan'd residing 6 L Jozsefkorut, Budapest VIII, Hungary, have invented {certain new "and useful Improvements Gultis' ators I for Treating the Soil, f whichthe' following is n h rh i d heni w ereas berm-111th f one.

K In, certain well-ln1own cultiyatinm Ina-' chines "pins or teeth are 11Ii1fOIm1y lStIib1 40,

' 5 in erv ws refielrme so:

M1111; clear, and exact specification.

In previous construct ons of. cultlvators for treating-the; soil'conslst ng of'hoe-like implements a mounted on both sides bf" a' disc: or on spokes thefinip'lements' all "work the same depth and fail for thati'cesonitoff eornminute the soil to L the required extent and" to break upthejr'naniire and the roots; of weeds in the soil softhat tlieweeds are always able to grow afresh. "The! insuffig ciently com'niinutd soil or manure. does notj disintegrate to the desired extent and were fore the fertility ofthelsoil is dirrnnisl'wd;

causing the implements which succeedone another 111 the direction of rotatlon'to .op'erate' at Uuifieren depths so th mes; so ilif is out we fs perp dq layers; aedifi r nt l i nd h aifiai iendro s are 1 "1pletelyfconiminute The resent,

spiral line so that the successive hoes .eut deeper, i. e, each succeeding hoe penetrates further into the 's oil than the preceding uted over the; periphery 'offdrumsj of spiral shape in cross 'section,i'which pins penetrate the earth to different depthsi'ogApart; however, from the, circumstance that .Ipins i or tQBllllydO not work up I and coinminut'e the soil to .the'neces'sary extent or cut-up the manure and the roots, these cultivating machines. suffer from the drawback'that with uniform forward-tra el-' ofthe machine,

after the first rotation, the successive, teeth located nearest the axis of rotationalways enter the furrows of the preceding teeth; furthest from theaXis and therefore 'oper ate idly. This drawback would also loe.

experienced withjthe construction forming V g 7 v p disc equipped withhoes secured'alternately' 'o i on one ,andthe other'sid'e of the disc and the subject oft-he jresentjinvention, if the s Spcci fia'ition of Ilettersifatent but penetrates? fresh;

invention "more We'r" x .7 ir lh .enebnjreues' bia- 1114: tivator' of the" 'type cornprising hoe-likeirn l plements mounted on both sidesjof ia oron spokesjin whichthe points oflthefloi nao" pl'e o nt er. h s a e n -d os he ito'fore, a cir cleihut are''arrar'lged in.

rectangular?"orffcir v la overturn "eeeitth s ii li f a a ri Th h s? wear (if one cuttinggedge until all the cut;

'ments.

round -th y -"c 1rcumfrenee in th'e ff thehoes are swag er-16 561113? "sp als-e 1; 6

are 1 also fdispose din oneli'or *I'nore g oup- ,5 the severalhoes 7 of each group sbelng ar ranged-- without an interval immediate last hoe of each group and the first h of the following group there: "is- 19% Such an inter-valith'at' duriiigftheforward 15 v Inent to f' jthe culti vatorithe*machine traiie V so far that'- theifirs following hoe doesnot 'enter'into the furro the' preceding hoe'lTO Oil so thatj-ther i no idle;operation ofthe hoes,"

I Iri oi d'er-to increaseithe:dirability of thef hOesI-which are subjected'togreatfwearjmyh-" ontfemplates'f sucha construction 'o'ff 'th oesthat each ;hoe;can'fl he em ioyedsay r namesb "a sinipleiad I justmentflbefore it requires to besharpene'd or replaced; whereby a? great" ommy-20f; time and lr-nateriial isfeffe'ctd; To according? to v j invention; she? hoe a noplaesawm Y e'ij e i rm n ve ere -po ms" Theseplates are 11:1 r bf elygon lggsquarey f mbi' t 'Pr'f b1Y' of" regu lfarjfhexagon forrn andfth yer'e;

r 'ght ene ej -i l nse "s m Withfth'ej r utting' ed'ge's' atthe jedges a" t seeuredgbjr' on'e Wing" t fhe, face of thf 'pe nfoif enm s r wssio alien-acumen the h'oes. anjbeused three more times after i ens edg reor (Inlthefiaeconipanylngfdrawings stea o ingthe' invention" ljig;f sideieleya on; and igfifZayertical sect ofjacli lf ilatdrf quip'pedi h'imjesae, t mug o imr v na I00 x tion; "Figij3'shows a'liexagonal'platesub Y sequently bent to sform a hoe and provided .withqfour cuttingedges; Fig. 4 is-a front View of the hoe madefrom such a plate.- Fig. 5 shows in full lines the working die-"210a gram of my improved-fcultivatorland-in I dotted'lines therworking diagram of a cul-; tivator" with uniformly distributedilnple-fg v Aecording to and '2," A. de 1iotes lati'on to the diagonal edges and serving 7 I est furrow"v on the next rotation; "It; will onal cutting edges.

sively ,used.-

each made as indicated in vFigs. 3 antlfl of a hexagonal steel plate bent at right angles as shown in Fig. 4. The hoes have four diag f In both wings of the hoe holes 8 are formed symmetrically in re-' for r the reception of the fastening screws; so that the hoes cansbesecuredeby either= wing to either side of the disc Ag 'as ,indicated in Fig.1, in which. *way the four cutting edgesof each hoe can be succes- These, hoes ,are in the constructionshown arrangedyin two groups on each side of the disc A. 1, 2, and 3 denotethe hoes of the one-group and- 4c, 5 and 6 denote the hoes of'the other 210111) the same side of the disc. 1 The hoes of each group are provided .I'w-i'thworking points disposedin' a spiral "lineso that eachof the successively acting hoes of each'group works more deeply than the precedingone and the-soil is cut into as many, superposed layers as there are;

hoeslin -a group. Each group of hoes occuples one quarter-roof the circumference-of the disc 'A'so that ea ch groupis followed 'by an empty spaceof the same length. iWhile there are no hoes on one side of the disc in engagement with the-soil the. cultivat or travels so far forwards in the. direction of'the arrow (Fig lfth at thefirst'low set hoe offthe secondgroup .o'f hoes on} the same side does' vnot enter the fur row f. -the last high-set hoe of the: first group but cuts-a fresh furrow. 'lhis is indicated .diagrammaticallyin F i 5, 'where" 40 H I V peindicates the travel of the severalhoes'.

denotes the path 0 movement positions of the axis of the cultivator "at.

the moment when the hoes-1, 2, 3 and4, 5 6

penetrate during one rotation while on the" line b b the points of penetration I of these hoes in the soilare indicated at 1 2513,45, and-6f or for the vnext rotation at 1, 2; 3; at; 5 and 6; The full curved lines represent the pathsof the hoe points ih'the soil. 1; II, III, IV, v and vi or' 1' the hoes; when the hoes are uniformly disalternately;

trihuted' along the periphery of, the'dise;

the paths of "the hoes .being indicated by dotted lines! In the latter case VI, VI indithepath of the first hoe making the shallowbe seen. from the} diagram that in: this case "the path of the hoe 'I' coincides xvith the furrow VI, VI of the previous-hoe VI'so .thatthefirst hoedoes no workon the sec- 5' end and followingrotations, ,In'the other case,- however,, i. e. with the, arrangement ofv the hoes accordingto my invent on, the

cultivator moves forward between the point q 7 of penetration of the last high f set' hoe of one group andthe first'low set hoe of the next group on the same side to such an extent that the low set hoedoesnotehter the furrow-of the high set hoe of thef'preceding;v groups, but cuts afresh furrow. Idle opera ti'on of anyof the hoes is therefore impossi ble. v

so: that the groups of hoes on either side 1 Itwill beevident the groups of hoes A on the o ne side of the disc. are opposite the do not work. simultaneously but, operate 7 I claim as myinventionr'f 1.; Ina cultivator,'tl1e combi ation with a, rotatable disc, Ofa plurality of exchangeable hoes mounted along thelouteredge of e said disc; at various.distances-from the; 'aX-is of rotation 'ofifthe said sdisc, tlie'isaidQ hoes being 'mou'nted'cOIlLIeitherGside10f the said disc in alternating group's; tlie lhoe's,infl

each" group successivelyincreasing" in" d'is 1 tance from theaxis of thefsajid'tdisc 'in' the it direction or; its rotation, the. .groupsfloflibeS on the'same side of the disc being" separated a j by an inoperative portion- 'corresponding to the length of onegrolilp 12.12Infa cultivator as specified in claim 1, a hoecomprising' a hexagonalmember bent at right angles to form symmetrical hoe portions each portion having two cuttingj'edges andsymmetr cally placed hoes for the reception of fastening means for removably at- I v taching the hoe to the disc. J r

In testimonywhereof I havesigned m name to this specification.

H L S, KGS EGI. 

